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Results of a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University represent a step toward improving our understanding of Crohn’s disease and the factors that cause its intestinal inflammation. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that can lead to chronic inflammation of th...

Biomedical researchers at Case Western Reserve University report that their latest innovation in developing synthetic platelets could help save lives by rapidly stabilizing clots to reduce blood loss from traumatic injuries. This new effort centers on the creation of next-generation, platelet-mimic...

Class Year: 2023 Degree program: Physician Assistant Program Dwayne Chapman began playing football when he was just 5 years old, and over the years drew the attention of college coaches, including those at Division I Western Michigan. But his D1 college football career came to an abrupt end in 20...

Three distinguished members of the Case Western Reserve University faculty—Susann Brady-Kalnay, Paul Tesar and Satish Viswanath—have been elected among 83 “of the world’s best emerging academic inventors” to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2022 class of Senior Members. Senior members are el...

With support from State of Ohio’s Technology Validation and Start-up Fund Case Western Reserve University and NeoIndicate LLC have signed an exclusive license agreement to commercialize an imaging agent discovered and developed at the School of Medicine that fluorescently tags tumor cells to guide ...

Discovery offers hope to better understand how diseases like cancer, premature aging can be prevented Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have identified a new mechanism by which a protein known for repairing damaged DNA also protects the integrity of DNA by preserving its structural s...

After a busy week with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine classes, Brooke Quinton and Yiran Wang found that painting and drawing together were good ways to relax on the weekends. Recognizing the many benefits of time spent creating artwork, they thought perhaps art could be integrate...

Neil Greenspan Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Professor Neil Greenspan has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers for their “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to ad...

Case Western Reserve University and Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. have signed an exclusive license agreement to advance and commercialize a therapeutic approach discovered by university medical researchers to treat Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). PMD is a rare childhood degenerative disorder of th...

A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine finds those who received the Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine are less likely to experience “breakthrough” COVID-19 cases, compared to recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine. Rong Xu A vaccine breakthrough infe...